AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SYDNEY, Yesterday.
Two fresh cases of small-pox were reported yesterday. The sufferers are another child, of the carpenter who died on the 17th instant, and the mother. The house and the inmates are kept in strict quarantine. The steamship Ocean, with 480 Chinese on board, did not proceed to Melbourne, but has entered this port, and has been quarantened. She is expected to be detained forty days.
MELBOURNE, Yesterday.
The Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales were not accorded a public reception to-day, as was intended. They dined with the Governor at Government House.
BEISBANE. Yesterday.
The Government has wired to the Agent-General to arrange to send emigrants every mail by the British and India Company's steamers to Cooktown, Mackay, and Bockhampton. Instructions have also been sent to send 4000 emigrants annually by sailing vessels, instead sf 2000.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 126, 29 June 1881, Page 2
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